Recap of 2022 and Plan for 2023

Dec 30, 2022

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This email is just a recap of where we were in the beginning of 2022 vs where we are today.

Recap of 2022:

This newsletter started roughly in Jan 2021 and eventually crossed 20,000 subscribers by 2022.

Today our Micro SaaS HQ ecosystem is one of the biggest ecosystems exclusively meant for Micro SaaS builders/founders with Deep-dive reports, Micro SaaS trends, Founder interviews and a closed community of builders

What we accomplished in 2022:

We started building a much bigger ecosystem around Micro SaaS at Micro SaaS HQ
Now our newsletter also covers smaller opportunities that are Non-Micro SaaS like opportunities around Info products, Micro consulting (Fractional CTOs etc), Newsletters, Ebooks, Courses etc too that will help understanding trends better around generating revenue
Crossed 20,000 subscribers and are growing strong.
Launched Micro SaaS HQ on Product Hunt this year and got into #2 Product of the Day.

Launched our Micro SaaS Community this year and we have been active with 500+ Pro subscribers
Started covering more insights around Micro SaaS and Founder ecosystem at Micro SaaS HQ Insights
We also launched ‘Micro SaaS News in 2 minutes section’ to keep every one upto date on the Micro SaaS trends, Founder ecosystem.
Handled hundreds of discussions in our community around various questions related to product-market fit, validating the product ideas/reach, building landing pages etc.

Reports covered so far:

Building Form/Survey/Quiz based Products
Building Products around Twitter
Building Social Proof Products
Website Monitoring tools
Privacy-first analytics products
Products around OpenAI/GPT-3
Building Airtable based products
Building Slack based products
Building Tools like Syften, F5bot etc - Keyword monitoring tools , PMAlerts
Building products around Open source projects
Building products around Notion eco system
Building products around Referral Software for SaaS
Building products around media editiing - video, images, audio etc
Building products around API bundles - both platform based APIs and general APIs
Building Google Sheets based Products
Building products around Marketplaces - various domains and niches
Building products around Online communities
Build Products around AWS AI/ML or GCP AI/ML ecosystem
Building Products around Content Creators
Building Products around Emails
Building Products around Headless Browsers & Headless CMS
Building Products around WordPress ecosystem
Building Products around Customer Experience tools
Building Products around User Feedback and Testimonial tools
Building Products around Domains, Files & Hosting
Building Products around Calendars & Time-tracking tools
Building Products around Shopify ecosystem
Building Products around SaaS Starter Kits
Building Products around Website Builders
Building Products around Curated content & Curated Lists
Building business around Productized services
Building Products around Hiring challenges
Building Products around Website Links/URL Links
Building Products around Recurring Tasks, Reminders & Checklists
Building Products around Webflow and Tailwind
Building Products around Bubble
Building Products around Newsletter Tools
Building Products around Blogging & Writing
Building Products around Dashboards & Data Tools
Building Products around Challenges & Habits
Building Products around Billing, Subscriptions & Revenue
Building Products around Remote Work & Digital Nomad Ecosystem
Building Products around Remote Music, Songs & Events
Building Products around Cold Outreach
Building Products around SEO, Keyword Research & Backlinks
Building Products around Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint
Building Products around E-commerce & Online Stores
Building Products around LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok & Other Social Platforms
Building Products around CRM, Product Roadmap and Issue Tracking tools
Building Products around Developers ecosystem
Building Products around Survey & Research Platforms
Building Products around Info Products - Part 1
Building Products around Info Products - Part 2
Building Products around Simple Automations
Building Products around Founders, Makers & Builders - Part 1
Building Products around Founders, Makers & Builders - Part 2
Building Products around AI based services - Part 1
Building Products around AI based services - Part 2
Building Products around AI based services - Part 3
Building Products around Supabase
Building Products around White-Label Products - Part 1
Building Products around White-Label Products - Part 2
Building Products around Cohort based Learning - Part 1
Building Products around Cohort based Learning - Part 2
Building Products around Mental Health
Building Products around Integrations
Building Products around Contextual Data & Research As A Service
Building Products around Growth Hacking
Building Products around AI based E-Commerce Solutions
Building Products around Youtube, Telegram and Instagram
Building Products around News, Comments, Reviews & Search
Building Products around Agencies and Teams
Building Products around Freelancer ecosystem - Part 1
Building Products around Freelancer ecosystem - Part 2
Building Products around Content Generation and Content Repurpose
Building Products around Simple Alternatives to Enterprise Products
Building Products around Job Boards, Resumes, Interview related Tools
Building Products around around SaaS Ecosystem - Part 1
Building Products around around SaaS Ecosystem - Part 2
Building Products around around SaaS Ecosystem - Part 3
Building Products around Twitter Ecosystem
Building Products around AI, GPT-3, Stable Diffusion, DreamBooth - Part 1
Building Products around AI, GPT-3, Stable Diffusion, DreamBooth - Part 2

Some Wins From Community:

Korede Onamade launched statementai.io , gpt-3 powered essay and statement letter generator for graduate and scholarship applicants
Lynn Lin and team have beta launched datanode.site - AI-Powered Data Aggregation and Analysis Platform. DataNode provides a dataset of over 68 million products from 150k e-commerce stores.
Bhanu built Feather.so and reached $1000 MRR.
Will Shan launched audaos.com - a new storytelling tool for remotely, a fast, simple way to share and present your work. get contextual feedback, and make decisions.
Pingu launched esf.tools, which brings subdomains to the ENS platform within Ethereum.
Ab Advany Launched NoCodeMayo.com and reached $1500 MRR - NoCodeMayo allows you to add multiple domains, custom HTTP headers, meta/SEO data, and other stuff to your Bubble.io app.
Arnaud Cortisse launched kindlevocabulary.com - a tool to learn a new language using your Kindle e-reader
Kumar Manaswi launched hetrolinks.com - Hetrolinks is the fastest and easiest way to find and repair affiliate links for free.
Michael Panik launch in beta threadvideos.com - a platform that automatically generates social media videos based on text threads from Reddit, Twitter, and more.
Justin Ferriman launched gapscout.com - GapScout analyzes every review written about your business (and your competitors), and then reveals the most profitable gaps in the market!
Jason Charnes has built Job Boardly - Launch a job board for your audience, niche, community, or company without writing a line of code.
Christian Helvin has beta launched enhancemeet.com - Take notes, make todos, write messages, and manage your day all inside your meeting!
Alexis is working on pendragons.io, a productivity app for freelance writers, and peerkudos.com , an anonymous peer-to-peer employee recognition app.
Min.Wang built a visual group card tool called funkudo funkudo.com
Salil Sethi has built ProsperCircle.com (comprehensive NFT insights)
Meiko Patton has designed iamunbreakable.xyz - WOC stress-relief & affirmation colouring book
Sai Upadhyayula is working on his Youtube Channel with 16k subscribers - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD20RZV_WHQImisCW2QZwDw, where he teaches mainly about Spring Boot and Microservices.
Chuck Brockman has launched contactbetter.com - Get more leads with a 1-click mobile optimized contact page for your business.
Vinny has built fastscriber.com - podcast transcription tool
Artem Smirnov is working on jelytics.com - Minimalistic analytics for your landing page
Korede Onamade is building flowops.xyz - Monitoring for non-technical teams
Michael Liendo is writing Fullstack MicroSaaS on AWS book
Ryan Strickler Launched SnailBox on ProductHunt and stood at #3 on Product of the day
Gourav Goyal built ChatGPTWriter to help generate entire emails or replies based on a few keywords that you input

What’s coming for 2023:

Create more reports around the opportunities.
Create Deep-dive reports with data around competitors, traffic sources, keyword search volumes etc
We are betting big on the community.
So far the community is primarily async and now we want to plan doing monthly calls to start with.
Most of the founders struggle getting a cofounder. We want to see if we can help Pro subscribers get a cofounder with a complimentary skills set.
Work with other IndieHackers to bring in some good deals with LTDs and also see if we can help people sell and acquire businesses (Or may be partner with current marketplaces)

Overall I want to grow our current ecosystem into the best ecosystem for people who want to know the trends, get into the ecosystem, build side projects and start making revenue.

These are some of the rough thoughts I have around Micro SaaS HQ and let’s target for a stronger 2023.

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